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Section 2: Mitosis
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Key Ideas
Eukaryotic Cell Cycle
Stages of Mitosis
Cytokinesis
Summary
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Bellringer
Using the diagram of a football field, write a short
paragraph describing how the players, the midfield line,
and the goal posts compare to the structures of a cell
involved in mitosis and cell division.
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Key Ideas
• What are the phases of the eukaryotic cell cycle?
• What are the four stages of mitosis?
• How does cytokinesis occur?
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Eukaryotic Cell Cycle
• The cell cycle is a repeating sequence of cellular growth
and division during the life of a cell.
• The life of a eukaryotic cell cycles through phases of
growth, DNA replication, preparation for cell division, and
division of the nucleus and cytoplasm.
• The cell cycle is made up of five phases. The first three
phases together are known as interphase. The
remaining two phases make up cell division.
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The Cell Cycle
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Eukaryotic Cell Cycle, continued
Interphase
• During interphase, the cell is not dividing. It is growing
and preparing to divide.
• Different types of cells spend different amounts of time in
interphase.
• Cells that divide often, such as skin cells, spend less
time in interphase. Cells that divide seldom, such as
nerve cells, spend most of their time in interphase.
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Eukaryotic Cell Cycle, continued
Interphase
• During the first gap phase (G1), a cell grows rapidly as
the cell builds more organelles. For most organisms, this
phase occupies the major portion of the cell’s life.
• During the synthesis phase (S), a cell’s DNA is copied.
At the end of the S phase, the cell’s nucleus has twice as
much DNA as it did in the G1 phase.
• During the second gap phase (G2), the cell continues to
grow and prepares to divide. Hollow protein fibers called
microtubules are organized in the cytoplasm during G2.
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Visual Concept: Cell Cycle—G1 Phase
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Visual Concept: Cell Cycle—S Phase
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Visual Concept: Cell Cycle—G2 Phase
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Visual Concept: Cell Cycle—M Phase
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Eukaryotic Cell Cycle, continued
Cell Division
• Each new cell requires a complete set of organelles,
including a nucleus.
• The process of dividing the nucleus into two daughter
nuclei is called mitosis.
• The process of separating the organelles and the
cytoplasm is called cytokinesis.
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Visual Concept: Mitosis
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Eukaryotic Cell Cycle, continued
Cell Division
• During mitosis, the nucleus divides to form two nuclei.
Each nucleus contains a complete set of the cell’s
chromosomes.
• The nuclear membrane breaks down briefly. The two
sister chromatids of each chromosome are pulled to the
opposite sides of the dividing cell.
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Eukaryotic Cell Cycle, continued
Cell Division
• As the nucleus divides, the cytoplasm also begins to
divide.
• Each daughter cell receives about half of the original
cell’s organelles.
• During cytokinesis, the two daughter cells are physically
separated.
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Stages of Mitosis
• Although mitosis is a continuous process, biologists
traditionally divide it into four stages.
• Mitosis is a continuous process that can be observed in
four stages: prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and
telophase.
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Stages of Mitosis, continued
Stage 1 Prophase
• Within the nucleus, chromosomes begin to condense
and become visible under a light microscope.
• The nuclear membrane breaks down. Outside the
nucleus, a special structure called the spindle forms.
The spindle is made up of several spindle fibers.
• Each spindle fiber in turn is made up of an individual
microtubule—a hollow tube of protein. Microtubules
organize into a spindle that runs at a right angle to the
cell’s equator.
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Stages of Mitosis, continued
Stage 1 Prophase
• Cells have an organelle called the centrosome, which
helps assemble the spindle.
• In animal cells, the centrosome includes a pair of
centrioles. Each centriole is made up of nine triplets of
microtubules arranged as a short, hollow tube.
• Before mitosis, the cell’s centrosome is duplicated.
During prophase, the centrosomes move to opposite
poles of the cell.
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Prophase
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Stages of Mitosis, continued
Stage 2 Metaphase
• During metaphase, the chromosomes are packaged into
their most condensed form.
• The nuclear membrane is fully dissolved, and the
condensed chromosomes move to the center of the cell
and line up along the cell’s equator.
• Spindle fibers form a link between the poles and the
centromere of each chromosome.
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Metaphase
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Stages of Mitosis, continued
Stage 3 Anaphase
• Once all of the chromosomes are lined up, the spindle
fibers shorten. The spindle fibers shorten by breaking
down the microtubules bit by bit.
• Sister chromatids move toward opposite poles as the
spindle fibers that are attached continue to shorten.
• Each pole now has a full set of chromosomes.
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Anaphase
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Stages of Mitosis, continued
Stage 4 Telophase
• A nuclear envelope forms around the chromosomes at
each pole of the cell.
• Chromosomes, now at opposite poles, uncoil and
change back to their original chromatin form.
• The spindle dissolves and the spindle fibers break down
and disappear.
• Mitosis is complete.
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Telophase
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Visual Concept: Snapshot of Mitotic
Structures
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Cytokinesis
• As mitosis ends, cytokinesis begins. The cytoplasm is
separated, and two cells are formed.
• During cytokinesis, the cell membrane grows into the
center of the cell and divides it into two daughter cells of
equal size.
• Each daughter cell has about half of the parent’s
cytoplasm and organelles.
• The end result of mitosis and cytokinesis is two
genetically identical cells in place of the original cell.
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Cytokinesis, continued
Separating the Cytoplasm
• In animal cells and other cells that lack cell walls, the cell
is pinched in half by a belt of protein threads.
• In plant cells and other cells that have rigid cell walls, the
cytoplasm is divided in a different way.
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Cytokinesis, continued
Separating the Cytoplasm
• Vesicles holding cell wall material line up across the
middle of the cell.
• These vesicles fuse to form a large, membrane-bound
cell wall called the cell plate.
• When it is completely formed, the cell plate separates
the plant cell into two new plant cells.
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Visual Concept: Comparing Cell Division
in Plants and Animals
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Cytokinesis, continued
Continuing the Cell Cycle
• After cytokinesis is complete, each cell enters the G1
stage of interphase.
• The daughter cells are about equal in size—about half
the size of the original cell.
• The activity of each cell continues because each has its
own DNA and organelles. The cell cycle continues for
each new cell.
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Summary
• The life of a eukaryotic cell cycles through phases of
growth, DNA replication, preparation for cell division, and
division of the nucleus and cytoplasm.
• Mitosis is a continuous process that can be observed in
four stages: prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and
telophase.
• During cytokinesis, the cell membrane grows into the
center of the cell and divides it into two daughter cells of
equal size. Each daughter cell has about half of the
parent’s cytoplasm and organelles.